• It is used for veterinary euthanasia and is used by some US states and the Federal government of the United States for executions of convicted criminals by lethal injection. (wikipedia.org)
  • Pentobarbital has been used or considered as a substitute for the barbiturate sodium thiopental used for capital punishment by lethal injection in the United States when that drug became unavailable. (wikipedia.org)
  • Lethal quantity administrated for capital punishment or death sentence. (doughertyonlinepharmacy.com)
  • Pentobarbital has been used or viewed as a substitute for other drugs previously used for capital punishment in the United States when those drugs are unavailable. (ricoremedies.com)
  • Use of the drug for executions is illegal under Danish law, and when this was discovered, after public outcry in Danish media, Lundbeck stopped selling it to US states that impose the death penalty and prohibited US distributors to sell it to any customers, such as state authorities, that practice or participate in executions of humans. (wikipedia.org)
  • Used mostly in the 19th and 20th centuries, it was also used in 1977 in Utah to execute Gary Gilmore, the first inmate put to death after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed capital punishment to resume, and two other Utah inmates. (thetruthaboutguns.com)